FLASHBACKS:
30 years ago: The Shield collapses under an onslaught from Ultron. Doom is said to have fixed everything with a wave of his hand; Brand is nine years old (no actual appearances here aside from Ulton, see NOTE).
10 years ago: Abigail Brand defeats Ord and is put in charge of the Shield (see NOTE).
5 years ago: the Endless Summers and da Vinci fight off a bunch of Pym-created sentient giant ant zombies.
SYNOPSIS:
Abigail Brand wakes up to another day of guarding the Shield. She prepares to meet her new commander, since her current one (Leah) is being promoted to lead the Hel-Rangers (she’s also leaving to find the missing Magik). New recruits arrive (including Ms. America) and are assigned their stations on the Shield. Later, the new assistant arrives: a foolhardy Kang. As Brand begins to let him know how things work, a future Kang arrives, apologizes for not listening to her and warns Brand of Thanos. The Shield only has twenty days left before it collapses. THERE IS NO HOPE.

NOTE:
Brand is from a Domain called Breakland. Given the “thirty years ago/ten years ago” flashbacks, this reality must have had a similar wall/shield situation like Battleworld has (it just wouldn’t have been the Thing). Battleworld has only been around for eight years, remember, so Doom wouldn’t have fixed it like described. Chalk it up to tweaked memories. Also, Brand’s been in charge of the Shield for “ten years,” so basically for the entire existence of Battleworld. Side note: it’s mentioned that Brand took over the Shield from Nick Fury.

Ms. America arrives at the Shield here, so this is after A-Force and before RSKULL 1-FB, AOUV.M/Z & SECWARSTOO /3. Lady Kate is already at the Shield, so after SECWARSJ 1 and still before those other three for Ms. Marvel.

FLASHBACKS:
Magik arrived at the Shield and made a great impression on the first day. Also, she and Leah fall in love (relatively recently). Shortly after Beast died, there’s another attack on the Shield (a while back). Nick Fury gives Abigail Brand some advice (before Brand is put in charge of the Shield).
SYNOPSIS:
Leah leaves the Shield to search for Magik. Fifteen days later, Kang reports (and taunts Brand with) that he’s lost contact with the Hel-Rangers, and that he’s going to be promoted to lead a new team. The Endless Summers stops Brand from shooting Kang. Leonardo repots he hasn’t found the Thanos they were warned about yet. Brand asks Unite about Thanos, but they warn her about an impending attack instead. They go outside to see what it is, and Brand is dismayed to see it’s a Nick Fury transformed into a Fury. HE KILLS SUPER HEROES.

NOTE:
This Magik is said to come from Limbo, but this isn’t the one from Inferno. This one’s brother (Colossus) is a werewolf with four arms (Magik has the normal amount of arms).

The Thanos in Infinity Gauntlet v2 is mentioned, meaning that mini takes place at the same time as this issue. That’s not how the map has it, but there’s no character overlap so it doesn’t really affect anything.

Beast (Brand’s former boyfriend) is mentioned but doesn’t appear. He was the commander before Leah arrived. No clue as to what Domain he was from. Also, Brand was forced to kill him when he went past the Shield and came back transformed.

SYNOPSIS:
Brand throws everyone at the Fury but it doesn’t work. She confronts Unite, who admit they gave a signal to Perfection so the Fury could attack. They realize their mistake (because now they’ll soon die as well) and offer their help. Brand releases Unite and one tries to stop the Fury, but fails and is killed. The other, with it’s lover gone, feels like a suicide mission is in order. It hacks the Fury to accompany Kang into the time stream; Kang runs the Fury into every temporal mine in their way. Leah returns with Magik and they help defeat the rest of the Perfection drones. Kang returns, having defeated the Fury. Thanos arrives, announces who he is and surrenders. ONE DAY LEFT.

NOTE:
Leah is from Hel. All the major Asgardian landmarks are in Doomstadt (see Futuree Imprtfect), so it’s a safe assumption Leah is from Hel, Doomstadt (you know; like Chicago, Illinois).

SYNOPSIS:
Brand throws Thanos in a cell. When they leave him alone Thanos starts a conversation with Ben Grimm, the Shield. Soon after, Thanos is interrogated; he tells them he’s spent some time south of the Shield, organized the various aggressive armies with each other, he’s responsible for the recent attacks on the Shield and the newest attack will happen now. As Brand calls in reinforcements and everyone fights the oncoming siege, Thanos continues his conversation with Grimm. Thanos eventually convinces Grimm that Doom isn’t god and reality isn’t what it should be, then ask Grimm what time it is. Suddenly, the Shield collapses as Ben stands up (he’s really tall, like, a mile tall). As he walks to Doomstadt his voice sounds “like a chain of thunderclaps” when he shouts “It’s Clobberin’ Time.” Thanos leaves to fight Doom. Kang leaves to warn their past selves. Ms. America and Lady Kate escape. Abigail Brand and the Endless Summers stay behind to die while facing the oncoming horde. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER.

NOTE:
When the Shield guards do a good job, Brand gets them pizza. She doesn’t say “good job” or anything, just gets them pizza. SECWARSTOO /3 should happen before this, because Lady Kate doesn’t know what pizza is yet there; she already knows here. Brand does finally say something nice to Summers at the end, though.

Leonardo da Vinci has four arms and four legs because he’s actually been two people the whole time.

Lots of mentioned characters here that don’t actually appear: the magpie-faced boy; Galact-USA the Great Consumer; Jack of Hearts the cardiac golem; the Winter Soldiers, the Springmaster’s seasonal Circus; the Serpent Society (has opened their membership to other reptilian species); Eardevil the Klawyer; and Squirrel Girl.

Part of the Thanos/Thing conversation is mirrored in SECWARS 6. Here’s how the two comics fit together:

Thanos implies that he and Thing are from the same reality (616) in both of these comics. Sue has memories of a reality without a Reed Richards in SECWARS 6. It could be taken that those are tampered memories, and that Ben and Sue are both the 616 versions. However, Tom Brevoort has said they aren’t, so Sue’s memories in SECWRS 6 are real.

Hickman: This doesn’t have anything to do with “Secret Wars,” but we’ve joked before about how “Secret Wars” is like issue #145 through whatever of an ongoing story that I’ve been telling. [Laughs] So there’s a reason why there aren’t any other Reeds around. You can buy those back issues at comiXology or Marvel Unlimited!

Brevoort: We wiped out a lot of Reeds years ago!

CBR: [Laughs] Right, in the early issues of Jonathan’s “Fantastic Four” run. I forgot about that.

Yup. However, there they are in SIEGE2 4, named the Fantastic Thors and everything. There's an invisible lady, a stretchy guy, etc. I mean, that's clearly who they are.

It's possible that the Fantastic Thors were already Thors in whatever reality they came from before Battleworld (meaning, they weren't necessarily members of the Thorsgard/Doomgard/whatever it was called), and for some reason that's why Doom never found them. I guess.

Yup. However, there they are in SIEGE2 4, named the Fantastic Thors and everything. There's an invisible lady, a stretchy guy, etc. I mean, that's clearly who they are.

It's possible that the Fantastic Thors were already Thors in whatever reality they came from before Battleworld (meaning, they weren't necessarily members of the Thorsgard/Doomgard/whatever it was called), and for some reason that's why Doom never found them. I guess.

*shrug*

I don't see names given on-panel. And elsewhere on Battleworld, we have examples where the F4 included Sue & Johnny's dad instead of Reed, another one where General Ross is the Thing, etc.